Search Results: Authors starting with W from Denominator Books (IOBA)

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. Volume 1. First edition. Cloth, rebound in unusually nice blue library buckram with branching patterns. Good. Ex-library marks to binding only; text block is entirely clean. Color fold-out world map has been repaired with archival tape along the first fold. 503pp. * 004701

New York: Columbia University Press, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Good in original blue-green covers. Text clean and unmarked. White-out call number to lower spine, evidence of other library marks cleanly removed leaving a fresh copy of this important evaluation of prohibition by the pioneering monetarist.

Pittsburg, PA [Pittsburgh]: Westinghouse Machine Co., 1899. Softcover. Very Good-. This futuristic pamphlet, which drew some notice and reviews at the time, proposes a system of natural gas pipelines following railway lines, feeding highly efficient natural gas engines...a system that was not to be realized fully for decades. Westinghouse cites many advantages of natural gas to supplant coal fired electric energy. Scarce, no copy located per OCLC. 24pp., 9 x 7", rebound in white boards with crimson backstrip & gilt lettering. Two pages have losses to lower corners, otherwise very good. * 004970

Leipzig: Lanckisch, 1752. Leather_bound. Good-. Leatherbound, 432 pp. + 5 plates. Good-. Binding solid; covers heavily scuffed; plates intact, but foxed. Pages also foxed. Paper label pasted to front cover. Welche an die Königliche Akademie der Wissenschafften zu Paris von einigen Gelehrten eingesendet, in ihren Versammlungen abgelesen und von ihr herausgegeben werden / aus dem Französischen ins Teutsche übersetzt von Ferdinand Wilhelm Beer. 004441

New York: Robert McBride, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. First edition. Scarce period mystery, "new and fresh as tomorrow morning's headlines" (from dust jacket). Fair. Ex-lending library with marks to both pastedowns. Covers good except spotting and fading to spine; dust jacket flap description pasted on front endpaper; cloth split at rear joint (reinforced with archival tape) and binding at rear hinge (likewise). 004395

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Second Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Very Good. Deluxe gift edition, includes SIGNED copy of book and VHS videotape (Edward O. Wilson: Reflections on a Life in Science) in slipcase. Small puncture in book DJ, else near fine. VHS tape appears as new. This gift edition was the 2nd printing.